ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
BULLETIN 139 
A GENUINE TREAT ON A HOT AUGUST DAY 
At such a time the cooling shower from the hose 
These great tortoises bask in the sun until their shells seem to fairly radiate heat. 
affords them most evident delight. 
in the south only one ram may be killed. The 
Board refuses all applications to kill ewes and 
lambs for museum groups. In the Kootenay 
District the open season has been shortened. 
The Wapiti is being very successfully restored 
to southern British Columbia by the stoppage of 
killmg. The Elk River Game Reserve is now 
well stocked with them. 
The Grizzly Bear now is accorded a measure 
of protection. None may be trapped south of 
the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 
and only three may be killed under one license in 
a season. (A bag limit of three is one too 
many !) 
The total amount of big game killed in 1920 
was really small. The great drop in the price 
of fur in the early winter of 1920 rendered trap- 
ping so weakly remunerative that the fur-bear- 
enjoyed a much-needed rest. The total 
their fur, was as 
trappers: 
ers 
catch of animals, trapped for 
follows, as obtained by 1,842 
Beaver* _.. 
Fox . 105 
Fisher 586 
Lynx . 1,242 
iam herineer sec ere eter eed 11.446 
Mink 5.887 
*No figures received. 
Photograph by Elwin R. Sanborn 
Otter & 245 
Muskrat 46,1038 
Raccoon 1,389 
Skunk 185 
Weasel 13,489 
Willd=Catt eremnese yore meri Stir mee Fe ton. 149 
Wolverine 247 
Nowious Animals Killed Under Bounty Law 
Wolves - . 84 
Cougars 211 
Coyotes 176 
Crows oe 1,955 
(OM y , or. on 
A CHRISTMAS BIRD CENSUS OF 
KARTABO* 
By Witi1aM Beese and INNess Hartiey 
T always has been an exciting feat to see 
how many birds one can see within a given 
time or limited area. Birds of a city backyard, 
or a month’s visitors to a bramble patch, offer 
a gamble which is fascinating to the human 
mind. I once took the greatest joy in recording 
seventy-six species of birds within a week, in 
This widespread human 
for with most 
a single tree in Brazil. 
interest has been used years 
*Contribution No. 96, Tropical Research Station, 
New York Zoological Society. 
